Petroc Trelawny with arts news and music, including Scarlatti keyboard sonatas played by Scott Ross
(harpsichord); Saint-Saens's Caprice on Danish and Russian Airs, Op 79 for piano, flute, oboe and clarinet; and Weber's Overture: Oberon played by the Bavarian Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Rafael Kubelik.
With Peter Hobday.
Chopin Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor, Op 31 Solomon (piano)
9.10 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No 1, Op 80
Gidon Kremer , Martha Argerich (piano)
9.40 Hoist Ballet Music: The Perfect
Fool
London Philharmonic, conductor Adrian Boult
9.51 Chopin Fantasy in F minor, Op 49
10.03 Sibelius The Tempest: Suite No 1 Helsinki Philharmonic, conductor Leif Segerstam
Stephen Hough
Joan Bakewell talks to the English pianist Stephen Hough about his studies in New York and the beginning of his professional career. Music includes the last movement of Rolf Uebermann 's Piano Concerto and the first movement of Hummel's
Piano Concerto No 4 in A minor, with which he made his recording debut in 1986.
Faust
With Donald Macleod. The "eternal feminine" is the motivating force of life itself, claims Faust - but not before he has made a tragic victim of the woman known in the legends variously as Margerita, Margareta and Gretchen. She is the subject of today's portrait. Music includes: Wagner A Faust Overture
Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch
Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Phyllis Spurr (piano)
Schubert Scene from Faust, D126b
Janet Baker (mezzo),
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)
Liszt Concert Paraphrase on the Waltz from Gounod's "Faust"
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Liszt A Faust Symphony (Part 2: Gretchen) Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Simon Rattle
Disillusioned with life in Prague, Smetana sets off for Sweden in 1856, having accepted a teaching post in Gothenburg. While continuing his career as a pianist, he was soon to show - with the encouragement of his friend Franz Liszt - that he could rise to the challenge of orchestral and operatic drama. Presented by Fiona Talkington
Wallenstein's Camp - Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Rafael Kubelik
Memories of Bohemia, in the Form of Polkas - Andras Schiff (piano)
The Brandenburgers in Bohemia (Act 1, Scene 7) - Bohumil Vich (tenor), Prague National Theatre Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Jan Hus
Tichy The Three Riders - Czech Philharmonic Chorus, conductor Josef Veselka
Hakon Jarl - Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Rafael Kubelik
From the New World
Chris de Souza introduces another in recital of music connected with America, given last year in St
George's, Brandon Hill , Bristol. Vanbrugh Quartet
Bartok String Quartet No 3
Dvorak String Quartet in F, Op 96 (American) Repeat
BBC Philharmonic
Rossini Overture: William Tell
Conductor Edward Downes
Mendelssohn Die Erst
Walpurgisnacht
Jean Rigby (mezzo), David Rendall (tenor), Gerald Finley (bass), Leeds Festival Chorus, conductor
Simon Wright
Haydn Cello Concerto No 2 in D Miklos Perenyi , conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Shostakovich Symphony No 15 Conductor Georg Solti
lain Burnside presents a specially recorded recital by the American soprano Christine Brewer with Roger Vignoles (piano).
Wagner Wesendonck Lieder
Joseph Marx Selige Nacht; Der
Bescheidene Schafer; Marienlied;
Hat Dich die Liebe Beruhrt
Menotti Canti della Lontananza Repeated from yesterday 10pm
With Sean Rafferty. Music includes Eigar's Cockaigne Overture (In
London Town) and Schubert's Violin Sonata in G minor, D408, played by Gidon Kremer and Oleg Maisenberg.
The first of three recitals from this year's Brighton Festival was given earlier this month in Glyndebourne Opera House by the Hagen Quartet.
Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 76 No 5 Webern String Quartet (1905)
Beethoven String Quartet in A minor, Op 132
The next broadcast from the Brighton
Festival will be on Tuesday 18 May, 7.30pm
Sharp Focus
The plight of farm labourers streaming into California desperate for work during the Depression was epitomised in Dorothea Lange 's picture of The Migrant Mother. In the second of this week's programmes about the power of photography,
Eamonn McCabe discovers why this photograph became an icon of the 1930s and explores its impact.
Conductor Sylvain Cambreling , Frangoise Pollet (soprano)
Trakl Lieder is a stunning and atmospheric song-cycle by a Belgian composer born in 1936 and sets poems by Austrian expressionist
Georg Trakl. Two very different faces of Stravinsky emerge in the early studies and the late ballet Agon, which marked his gradual immersion in 12-tone serialism. Dutilleux's orchestral showpiece completes the programme in glorious technicolour. Stravinsky Four Studies
Philippe Boesmans Trakl-Lieder (first UK broadcast)
Stravinsky Agon
Dutllleux Métaboles
Lars Von Trier has been widely acclaimed as one of Europe's most iconoclastic and inventive contemporary directors.
Richard Coles discusses his latest film, The
Idiots, in which the residents of a middle-class commune tap into their "inner idiot". Plus a profile of Mies van der Rohe, whose impact on the development of modern architecture and design rivals that of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Producer Lore Wlndemuth
Alyn Shipton presents studio sets from Tough Tenors and the Theo Travis Quartet.
With Donald Macleod.
12.05am Diepenbrock De Klare Dag; Maanlicht - Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
12.10 Schumann Symphony No 2 in C - Calgary PO, conductor Mario Bernardi
12.50 Brahms Rhapsody in G minor, Op 79 No 2 - Robert Silverman (piano)
1.00 Haydn Quartet in D, Op 76 No 5 - Britten Quartet; No 3 - Belcea Quartet
1.45 Musorgsky The Seminarist - Patteri Salomaa (baritone), Ilmo Ranta (piano)
1.50 Prokofiev Aubade (Romeo and Juliet Suite No 3) - Saarbrucken RSO, conductor Myung-Whun Chung
2.05 Suk Mass in B minor (Krecovicka) - Soloists, Czech Radio Choir, conductor Stanislaw Begunia
2.45 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 14 in F minor - Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, conductor Sergiu Comissiona
3.00 Schools
3.00 Playtime
3.15 Time to Move
3.35 Let's Make a Story
3.50 Drama Workshop
4.10 In the News Topical Roundup
4.30 Paganini Terzetto Concertante in F - Susanne Mebes (guitar), Members of the Amsterdam String Trio
5.05 Bruhns O Werter Heil'ger Geist - Greta de Reyghere (soprano), James Bowman (countertenor), Guy de Mey (tenor), Max van Egmond (bass), Ricercar Consort
5.20 Henrik Anders, arr Verhoef Symphonia Introductoria No 2 - Henk Verhoef (carillon)
5.30 J M Kraus Symphony in D, VB143 - Concerto Koln
5.45 Federico Chueca El Ano Pasado por Agua - Ensemble de Madrid
